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Dane Allred examines the "Abundance" of the universe in his list of "1001 Thanks"
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Wednesday Nov 02, 2011
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Sonnet LVII
by William Shakespeare
Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire?
I have no precious time at all to spend,
Nor services to do, till you require.
Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour
Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,
Nor think the bitterness of absence sour
When you have bid your servant once adieu;
Nor dare I question with my jealous thought
Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,
But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought
Save, where you are how happy you make those.
So true a fool is love that in your will,
Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.
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Wednesday Nov 02, 2011
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Sonnet LVI
by William Shakespeare
Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said
Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,
Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,
To-morrow sharpen'd in his former might:
So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fill
Thy hungry eyes even till they wink with fullness,
To-morrow see again, and do not kill
The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.
Let this sad interim like the ocean be
Which parts the shore, where two contracted new
Come daily to the banks, that, when they see
Return of love, more blest may be the view;
Else call it winter, which being full of care
Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
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Sonnet 56
Tuesday Nov 01, 2011
Tuesday Nov 01, 2011
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Everest
by Dane Allred
If you climb and never rest
Until you’ve climbed your Everest
When you climb down with the rest
How long before another test?
At the peak you’re at your best
You have finally reached the crest.
But if we ask, if you’re pressed
How long before another quest?
Get up and go get dressed.
We are unimpressed.
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Tuesday Nov 01, 2011
Tuesday Nov 01, 2011
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Bright Space
Zeniths
by Dane Allred
You have something you need to accomplish.
You may even have a good idea what it is.
It may be something you have been working towards your whole life.
It may be something that only takes a few days to accomplish.
But whatever it is,
The world remains changed forever after.
You are here for a reason.
There is something you have to do.
What does it feel like when you have finally reached that point?
There is that sense of satisfaction,
The knowledge you have made a difference.
The incredible surety you feel that what you are doing is right,
And you are doing it for the right reason.
It is an incredible and satisfying feeling,
A kind of euphoria.
When you have reached the highest point
The zenith,
There may be half of the trip still in front of you.
The culmination of a lifetime of work
Isn’t the end.
There is always something after.
The relief of having accomplished what you intended to do.
But often the glow of success is often followed by a letdown.
We all have those zeniths in our life where an incredible rush of excitement is followed by the lull of what comes afterwards.
We were all together in the Bright Space before,
Heady with the excitement of this new adventure called life.
We came here to learn all we can learn,
To someday return to that Bright Space
And realize we have accomplished our purpose;
To know all there is to know.
I am here to help you reach that zenith.
You are here to help me accomplish what it is I need to do.
In a life filled with possibilities,
There are so many things to be done.
We are here to do them.
Maybe we will have many different kinds of zeniths in this life.
Now there are seven billion of us on this journey together.
There is nothing we cannot accomplish.
What can I do to help you reach your zenith?
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Friday Oct 28, 2011
Friday Oct 28, 2011
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Friday Oct 28, 2011
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Sonnet LV
by William Shakespeare
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes.
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Sonnet 55
Thursday Oct 27, 2011
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Sonnet LIV
by William Shakespeare
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odor which doth in it live.
The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But, for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odors made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.
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Sonnet 54
Wednesday Oct 26, 2011
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Sonnet LIII
by William Shakespeare
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
And you, but one, can every shadow lend.
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring and foison of the year;
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
The other as your bounty doth appear;
And you in every blessed shape we know.
In all external grace you have some part,
But you like none, none you, for constant heart.
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Sonnet 53
Wednesday Oct 26, 2011
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Sonnet LII
by William Shakespeare
So am I as the rich, whose blessed key
Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,
The which he will not every hour survey,
For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.
Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,
Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,
Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,
Or captain jewels in the carcanet.
So is the time that keeps you as my chest,
Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,
To make some special instant special blest,
By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.
Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope,
Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope.
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Sonnet 52
Wednesday Oct 26, 2011
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Sonnet LI
by William Shakespeare
Thus can my love excuse the slow offense
Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed:
From where thou art why should I haste me thence?
Till I return, of posting is no need.
O, what excuse will my poor beast then find,
When swift extremity can seem but slow?
Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind;
In winged speed no motion shall I know:
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace;
Therefore desire of perfect'st love being made,
Shall neigh--no dull flesh--in his fiery race;
But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade;
Since from thee going he went willful-slow,
Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.
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Sonnet 51